I remember some of my sets has hidden bricks in "weird" (or unlogical) colors. I always wondered why, and I have two theories: 1: Maybe these colors don't get used that often, and therefore are cheaper than more frequently used colors (like red, blue, yellow). 2: LEGO designers intentionally use colors that are in contrast to make it easier when making instructions later, or when the customer build the set.
I've built a Chinese set with only black parts. I had a headache looking for parts on my table and it ruined the building experience. Now I understand why they put more colors.
I think the reason why colorful bricks pop up in various sets is because they don't get used as much as others. So when they have a place for a brick that won't be seen they use a brick that they have a lot of extra of.
I remember when I got the Tiger Creator set, seeing a lot of pink, blue, and grey pieces inside the torso and I honestly thought they were meant to represent the tiger's organs as an admittedly slightly morbid but fun detail.
A lego builder has confirmed, they include bricks of more exotic colors when they are not visible from the outside. This is confirmed to be just so that builders get extra of the parts that aren't as mass produced as others. This can be seen very prominently in the typewriter set and also the ship in a bottle set. Edits based on good replies: It's also to incease the number of that particular part in that particular colour being produced and making that part more cost effective. Its also used to more easily differentiate between pieces in very monochrome sets.
I thought that makes easier to tell which piece to use in a build. When you have a ton of monochrome pieces all bunched together it might be hard to tell which one should be used in a specific place. When they make one hot pink it's instantly obvious.
Yeah sure... They probably can't sell these odd color bricks as well as they hoped so they just put them in regular sets to get rid of them. It's all about the benjamins baby
I'm pretty sure part of the reason they incorporate colorful bricks is that they're cheaper to produce than darker colored bricks. I've heard blue is the cheapest color to make, but I'm not 100% sure on that.
My favorite hidden design detail is from the BrickHeadz Buzz Lightyear model. In the middle of the build, you make 4 blue cylinders with a small gray topper pieces that get loaded in a strange pattern. It took me like 10 minutes to figure out that it was meant to be Buzz's batteries being loaded into him. I smiled like an idiot for so long after figuring it out, just such a cute superfluous little detail that added so much to the building experience.
@Plastic Robots yeah, that one is cute. Homer Simpson has a similar detail, but it's that his brain is a 1×1 plate or something like that, instead of a 2×2 brick.
Love the cake story, it's so cute. It's on-brand with lego's humour and it feels more like someone with a heart made it than it just being a product by a ginormous company.
I think the voltron lego ideas set that came out a few years ago has alot of cyan bricks or some other rare brick colour that makes up the inside of the Lego set. I think the designer mentioned that it was a way to get lots of rare colour bricks into circulation easier as cyan had not been used in quite a few years.
Was about to say it might be because the aesthetic of the caatleship involves a lot of cyan in case people wanted to build scenes as well, and then I realized it was the 80's Voltron, haha.
I like how BrickHeads put in pink where the "brain" would be of the actual character. A good way to add a little easter egg and add varieties of bricks
I like how they even go further, and in the Homer Simpson Brickheadz, his brain is made up of a pink 1x1 plate with a jumper and round plate, insinuating it's smaller than average.
I remember building the königsegg speed champ wondering what the random blue and yellow bricks inside were untill they started forming a sweedish flag, very nifty!
I thought those kind of bricks were included in order to make builds less monotone and repetitive. For example, a pink brick would be a nice variation in a set like the Scythe shuttle which pretty much black in it's entirety. I figured that's also the reason why Lego keeps including visible blue technic pins when they could be easily replaced by black or grey ones.
Homer Simpson's brickheadz (41632) famously had a pink 1x1 tile as his "brain" as a joke (as well as donuts in his tummy). Lego was even kind enough to give you a "window" to look at it without disassembling the entire thing. It's honestly one of the best designed Brickheadz out there.
It could also help against someone accidentally placing a brick with a print on the inside if the same shape and colour piece but with print on it was used somewhere else
Here's how I look at it. The more colors you add to a set, the more expensive it is to manufacture. If a counterfeit company like Lepin were to get THAT down to detail in copying a set, it would cost them too much. Pink bricks are one of the ways Lego distinguishes themselves
My guess was always for contrast and orientation. When so many bricks are black and have pips so densely packed, it's good to have a contrasting body near to reorient and "calibrate" for lack of a better term,
The UCS AT AT also has pink brinks on the inside. I also think the addition of bright bricks is an shoutout to all of the MOCs that people make where beneath the surface there is a ton of Different colors
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I always chalked it up to needing an obviously different color to help highlight pieces that could easily be overlooked. My hope now is that somebody at Disney/Lucasfilm sees this video and responds by designing a new vehicle that is primarily pink.
My theory was actually different, at least for the pink bricks inside of Brickheads… I thought it was supposed to represent the brain of the character since they always put them in the heads xP
You briefly touched on what I always figured was the reasoning behind this - a pink brick in the illustrations gives a clear signifier of spatial relationship and makes following the instructions easier.
The whole inside of the mandalorian, boba felt and the child set is random coloured pieces, because Lego wants to save money as they have already used a lot of grey and black pieces.
I'd assumed it might be a marker of sorts, that gets hidden of course, to help differentiate the directions some for extra clarification. Pretty easy to compare a picture with the model when there's a bright pink marker to help you compare a bit better after all, hah. Starwars kits can get pretty complex, so it made sense, but Cake is a far better answer, hehehe
I have to imagine it's because pink is one of those colors that doesn't come up a whole lot but *is* particularly striking, so including colors like that is a limited way to get more bricks in those colors out there.
I always figured it'd just be as a reference anchor point when building, giving a single bright piece in a sea of grey or black to help distinguish things.
Number 3 of if you do another lego errors i'v got one. on Lloyd's golden ultra Dragon two of the vengestone warriors have armor pieces but in most of the promotional images it does not and in the real set it does not
I think the random brightly colored bricks are fun when building, but sometimes it irritates me because they can actually be seen from the outside. On the UCS ISD, the bright colored pieces can actually be seen at the seams of the bridge, and on the UCS AT-AT, there are some exposed tan pieces on the side plating that can be clearly seen when looking at the front or back, as well as colored pieces you can see when looking at the body from below. Especially since those are meant to be display sets, it kind of detracts from the model.
I assumed it would be for a similar reason as to why cartographers used to put fake towns on their maps, so they could see when someone would copy their map!
My favourite hidden colourful bricks in a smaller set is in the Speed Champions Koniegseg Jesko set, the exterior of the car is white with black accents but the interior has some hidden blue and yellow bricks in the shape of the Swedish flag
this is so crazy! I was just personally wondering why one of my bricks in the trunk of my bonsai set had one teal brick. thanks so much for this video I just started getting into Legos and now I'm a little bit of a fanatic and your channel has helped me learn more about my new favorite pass time
Sometimes I really confuse that why Lego add so many different colors inside the base of huge sets. When I am doing my MOC, I try to use the same color as it is cheaper and easier for individual purchases. But as a manufacturer, it is better to add different colors to make the building progress enjoyable. Great video, thanks.
I always thought those off-colour bricks were just to piss people off - because that's the effect they had on me. When I build my last Lego model - 10283 the Space Shuttle Discovery - I was almost at the point of throwing the whole thing against the next wall when I had to put in two bright azure plates for no reason.
I think the bright coloured elements are used mostly in areas where they are concealed from view. Although sometimes they really over do it like with 2022's Back to the Future DeLorean Time Machine... That set is a mess of colours.
I noticed that the Lego Ideas Sonic set had a pink tile in the floating platform above the loop, and I had been confused about it. Glad to know that the reason is Cake lol
i thought the colorful bricks inside the newer sets were primarily to make building easier, as i noticed they were completely internal. but hearing this story and seeing some other reasons makes it even better.
I understand why they add colored bricks, but in some sets like the UCS Imperial Star Destroyer it really bugs me that you can easily see the colored bricks when you look at it from a specific angle. Made me position it a bit lower on the shelf so it would be less noticable.
If you crack open Firstbourne's torso, you can tell her internal structure is just a massive rainbow of colors. Brown, white, yellow, orange, blue, green...all kinds of stuff. Also, there's a hollow spot inside. I like to put a golden crystal piece in there. :)
My guesses would have been 1: pink contrasts against the other colors and 2: pink might be a less costly color to produce 3: pink lego plastic might have more structural integrity than other colors (the opposite of brown)
I always thought it would be a super cool idea to hide several obviously off color pieces to each set in a large series and if you collect them all you unlock a code to a secret instructions book online that uses all the hidden pieces for another small set from the same series
The Bat-wing from the ´89 movie has not one but two pink bricks inside the wings, and they are heart shaped. I had to take a brake from building it, to catch my breath after laughing way to much.
I think another reason they use simple colours (red, green, blue, etc...) with some internal structural pieces is possibly because they don't want to have to make a part in a colour that it doesn't already come in yet
Makes good set design if you can take it apart and you aren’t just left with a bunch of grey or black bricks. Gives you a color pallete to build with if you decide to repurpose the parts
In LEGO Saturn V set inside of the rocket there is a mix of every collor in the world. I am serious there is lots of bricks in collors like: pink, green, blue, red, brown. When the rocket collors are especialy black and white.
I was surprised when building 31133, the Creator white rabbit, seal, cockatoo, that each build had hidden away in the middle of it a little 1x1 heart tile. I would've guessed the inclusion of oddly colored bricks in the middle of builds would've been because of overstock of a particular color of that element. Like they produced too many of them and they were taking up space so they had to find some way to get rid of them.
Gonna guess before watching the vid. Its to help when building. If the build is one or few colors, having one stand out can be a good reference. Like on a graph that is larger, every 1 may not be marked, but every 10 is, so ypu can find 12 easier
I've noticed this before as well, also, last week I bought the new lego rivendell set and was baffled by the inclusion of some random complicated bricks in the interior of the tree that would never be seen.
My guess is this: "Star wars sets are exceedingly grey, when thinking of boxes filled with lego the company wants you to think about a colorful collection of pieces that stimulates the imagination, rather than a dull, mature, grey mass, as such, whenever possible, they will attempt to add in colorful bricks so that collections of lego bricks maintain some color. This has the duel advantage of giving builders more options when building their own creations, so you're not just giving them a set, you're giving them a varied set of building parts for future home creations. The color pink is chosen because of it's relative rarity in other sets, this means that by giving builders pink bricks you are giving them a color they likely do not have many off, increasing their usefulness. In addition this helps Lego get rid of bricks that they might be producing more off than they actually need for sets".
I know Henrik. But before I got to know him I had bought the large scale X-wing from the late '90s. That was actually the fist Star Wars model he designed. And inside it had some colored bricks, that weren't going to be seen. Especially for the wing mechanism. I've asked him about it. "They are just easier to find in a pile of greys, and it won't be seen on the final model anyway" This was probably more than 15 years ago. And while the pink cake idea is more fun as a reference, it's just continuation of what they were already doing.
The closest I’ve personally come to this is the bright… I want to say red? 2x2 in the Ninjago ice dragon set, hidden in the dragon’s body. Strangely none of my Star Wars sets came with this, as far as I can recall
The only problem recently that I have with these exotic colors, is the inclusion of the bright blue plates in the wing of the Space Shuttle Discovery set. Thhese plates can be seen in real life, and are included in the official renders of the model in the instructions set.
Different-colored bricks do help with the orientation of the set while working. In fact, the most recent R2-D2 set used read and green bricks to build the infrastructure of the legs to designate which is right and which is left.
The whole substructure of the big DeLorean is a mess of random colored bricks, that can't be seen once finished. It really helps to follow instructions. But no pink. Appart from the hoverboard, that is stored in the trunk.
A lot of Brickheadz sets, maybe even all of them, have a pink 2x2 specifically inside the head. I assumed most of the other random colored ones inside were just getting rid of extra bits of plastic they didn't need or just had a lot of but that the pink one was a joke to represent the character's brain.
I like to think the random red/pink bricks in the brickheadz are little brains and or organs, not sure about green. The strange colors for the inner workings of those larger legos are defiantly so they can be seen better in the intructions.
I just always figured they hid bright colored bricks inside things to.make them easier to see on the instructions for younger kids when it's in a sea of black, grey or brown bricks. I remember seeing a few random yellow inner bricks in some of my Pirates and Castle/Woodsman sets as a kid in the late 80s/early 90s.
The Landbounty (70677) from Lego Ninjago from 2019 has a classic 2-by-4 LEGO brick in pink in the back of the build where you can place the mini car. You can't see it, of course, it's covered with a black plate.
The Optimus Prime set has a lot of sky blue in him, and this may be a nod to the color of their sparks, which is sky blue. G1 energon is pink, and the energon cube the set comes with is the only pink in the set.
I've built several lego sets with random colors completely covered by other's. I always assumed it was just to help instructions by making an easy to see reference that won't show on the surface.
I've always thought it was weird to have hidden colorful parts. But I think there are two main reasons. First, it makes it easier to build. I've built Chinese sets that have only one or two colors and you can get a headache trying to look for parts on your table. Second, it's great for people who want to build MOCs to have more colors available. I'll watch the video to check if I was right 😄
Pausing for my guess - I figured it was a production thing. Like pink bricks are cheaper or LEGO has a surplus of pink bricks so it costs them slightly less to include a pink brick in a place you will never see it. We are talking about a big corporation here so most odd choices come down to money saving
The Netpune Carrier (LEGO Atlantis set 8075, from 2010) has a hidden Pearl Gold part (47457 Slope, Curved 2 x 2 x 2/3 with Two Studs and Curved Sides) inside that once built is neither visible nor accessible. I think in that specific case, the designer decided to pick a cool part with an interesting colour, rather than two boring 2x2 plates.
I always figured it was to help orient yourself whole building, I remember when I was young I would struggle a lot with figuring our where the bricks were supposed to go exactly sometimes
I like the pink (or other bright colors) on some of the Lego Speed builds I have done. The bright colors for non visible structural parts makes assembly easier. Ask any one who has done the Aston Martin DB.
curiously I could imagine at least two reasons to do so for purely practical reasons. one would be to make instructions easier to read by adding some contrast. the other that minimum production numbers of colours could incentivise them to find places to "hide" surplus production of the less actually used colours (though I fancy lego has such absurd production numbers that this seems unlikely)
And here I thought the pink bricks were a hidden reference to R2-KT. If you aren't familiar with that Droid, I suggest looking it up. It's a very heartwarming, bittersweet background story. Whether coincidence or not, that to me makes these pink pieces even cooler!
I thought it's used so you could more easily read the instructions and have a good "save point" in the builds to work off of, so you're less likely to go a stud left or right on all these single color sets.
For my brothers birthday,he got a cool Jurassic World Lego set.Obviously he was too lazy to do it on his own(or he was just too scared to do it)so I ended up doing it.While I was working on it I found not just a pink brick,but a whole lot of bright colorful pieces! It may just be a coincidence, but I think pink bricks appear in more Star Wars™ sets. Just my story but, yeah.Love your channel.😎
I always called those "landmark" bricks-- whether or not it's the intention (or part of it) it does make a useful point of reference for building the surrounding structures. As hinted at "it's between the black 2x2 and 2x3 full one down from the 1x2 shim" is a lot harder to locate than "one down from the center of the pink 2x3"
Like lots of others i mainly thought this was to have a visual reference point while building. I also thought that it was a way to show young builders that its "ok" to hide random colors inside builds. In addition to this i have heard some lego designers talk about purposefully using various colors to get more bricks of that color type out to builders. And now this story. It's apparent that there are several advantages to using bright or different colored bricks inside builds when possible.
Tiago Catarino also admits that, in his time at LEGO, he and other designers added colors inside models in particular orders for representation. For example, he claims to add the Portuguese flag, represented by stacking colored plates, in several large sets.
Sone would say it‘s a feature. Some other would say it‘s because Lego want to get rid of their cheaply produced bricks they still have in stock. With all the wrong colors inside a set, especially with all the colors nobody wants, they make sure nobody uses the bricks for own creations or other models. There is a german company „bluebrixx“, were there is a blue brick hidden in every set. That is a feature!
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@@crazygalemt good point idk
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Batman only works in black. And sometimes very, very dark gray. And yet the Batmobile has a pink brick hidden inside.
the Lego movie reference
+the batwing, and there’s a reason because they needed a piece and the only one was a heart. check the lego planning vid for the batwing
Even batman brick head has pink brain
I recently built the Batman Classic TV Series cowl ($15 on clearance at my local Walmart!), and it's got a pink heart plate incorporated into it.
It's his latent homosexual tendencies buried deep, deep down.
I remember some of my sets has hidden bricks in "weird" (or unlogical) colors.
I always wondered why, and I have two theories:
1: Maybe these colors don't get used that often, and therefore are cheaper than more frequently used colors (like red, blue, yellow).
2: LEGO designers intentionally use colors that are in contrast to make it easier when making instructions later, or when the customer build the set.
Both of those theories are true
EXACTLY, this is the right answer.
I've built a Chinese set with only black parts. I had a headache looking for parts on my table and it ruined the building experience. Now I understand why they put more colors.
I think the reason why colorful bricks pop up in various sets is because they don't get used as much as others. So when they have a place for a brick that won't be seen they use a brick that they have a lot of extra of.
WRONG
Plus, it makes it more fun aswell
Of the other way around: To keep the use (and availability) of these kind of pieces stable.
It's also easier to know what bricks you are supposed to put
@@garglethesaltyseaman oh yeah what do you know then?
I remember when I got the Tiger Creator set, seeing a lot of pink, blue, and grey pieces inside the torso and I honestly thought they were meant to represent the tiger's organs as an admittedly slightly morbid but fun detail.
A lego builder has confirmed, they include bricks of more exotic colors when they are not visible from the outside. This is confirmed to be just so that builders get extra of the parts that aren't as mass produced as others. This can be seen very prominently in the typewriter set and also the ship in a bottle set.
Edits based on good replies:
It's also to incease the number of that particular part in that particular colour being produced and making that part more cost effective.
Its also used to more easily differentiate between pieces in very monochrome sets.
It's also to incease the number of that particular part in that particular colour being produced and making that part more cost effective.
@@TOA57Y yes also true
I thought that makes easier to tell which piece to use in a build. When you have a ton of monochrome pieces all bunched together it might be hard to tell which one should be used in a specific place. When they make one hot pink it's instantly obvious.
@@VieneLea yes also true
Yeah sure... They probably can't sell these odd color bricks as well as they hoped so they just put them in regular sets to get rid of them. It's all about the benjamins baby
I'm pretty sure part of the reason they incorporate colorful bricks is that they're cheaper to produce than darker colored bricks. I've heard blue is the cheapest color to make, but I'm not 100% sure on that.
I'd think red is/was cheapest, since it is or at least was the majority of colors.
My favorite hidden design detail is from the BrickHeadz Buzz Lightyear model. In the middle of the build, you make 4 blue cylinders with a small gray topper pieces that get loaded in a strange pattern. It took me like 10 minutes to figure out that it was meant to be Buzz's batteries being loaded into him. I smiled like an idiot for so long after figuring it out, just such a cute superfluous little detail that added so much to the building experience.
Just looked up the manual and it's honestly so beautiful! The fact they even went to the effort to invert 2 of them!
@@OatmealDonk Don't know who came up with the idea on the design team, but I absolutely adore that they decided to add the detail of his batteries.
Just looked at the instructions and they gave him a brain
@@Mrenderboyo lots of BrickHeadz have the same pink brick "brain" construction
@Plastic Robots yeah, that one is cute. Homer Simpson has a similar detail, but it's that his brain is a 1×1 plate or something like that, instead of a 2×2 brick.
Love the cake story, it's so cute. It's on-brand with lego's humour and it feels more like someone with a heart made it than it just being a product by a ginormous company.
My head cannon is that’s it’s a reference to the pink shorts boom guy
You don't want to know what cake means
I think the voltron lego ideas set that came out a few years ago has alot of cyan bricks or some other rare brick colour that makes up the inside of the Lego set. I think the designer mentioned that it was a way to get lots of rare colour bricks into circulation easier as cyan had not been used in quite a few years.
Was about to say it might be because the aesthetic of the caatleship involves a lot of cyan in case people wanted to build scenes as well, and then I realized it was the 80's Voltron, haha.
I like how BrickHeads put in pink where the "brain" would be of the actual character. A good way to add a little easter egg and add varieties of bricks
I love how they use pink bricks for the brick head brain
same
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Except for the Demogorgon!
I like how they even go further, and in the Homer Simpson Brickheadz, his brain is made up of a pink 1x1 plate with a jumper and round plate, insinuating it's smaller than average.
The creeper Brickheadz from minecraft has tnt built into its stomach and underneath the brain.
I remember building the königsegg speed champ wondering what the random blue and yellow bricks inside were untill they started forming a sweedish flag, very nifty!
I thought those kind of bricks were included in order to make builds less monotone and repetitive. For example, a pink brick would be a nice variation in a set like the Scythe shuttle which pretty much black in it's entirety. I figured that's also the reason why Lego keeps including visible blue technic pins when they could be easily replaced by black or grey ones.
Homer Simpson's brickheadz (41632) famously had a pink 1x1 tile as his "brain" as a joke (as well as donuts in his tummy). Lego was even kind enough to give you a "window" to look at it without disassembling the entire thing. It's honestly one of the best designed Brickheadz out there.
It could also help against someone accidentally placing a brick with a print on the inside if the same shape and colour piece but with print on it was used somewhere else
Did you seriously assume Lego prints their pieces for Star Wars?
That would necessitate Lego using prints in the first place.
Here's how I look at it. The more colors you add to a set, the more expensive it is to manufacture. If a counterfeit company like Lepin were to get THAT down to detail in copying a set, it would cost them too much.
Pink bricks are one of the ways Lego distinguishes themselves
My guess was always for contrast and orientation.
When so many bricks are black and have pips so densely packed, it's good to have a contrasting body near to reorient and "calibrate" for lack of a better term,
The UCS AT AT also has pink brinks on the inside.
I also think the addition of bright bricks is an shoutout to all of the MOCs that people make where beneath the surface there is a ton of Different colors
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"We've been tricked, we've been backstabbed, and we've been quite possibly, bamboozled."
I always chalked it up to needing an obviously different color to help highlight pieces that could easily be overlooked.
My hope now is that somebody at Disney/Lucasfilm sees this video and responds by designing a new vehicle that is primarily pink.
My theory was actually different, at least for the pink bricks inside of Brickheads… I thought it was supposed to represent the brain of the character since they always put them in the heads xP
Me 2
same
Same and I even WROTE a comment about then just being brains
he said that they were the brains in the vtdeo
Exactly!
I want to see someone save up enough of those pink bricks, to build a life sized pink cake out of lego, just to hide a gray brick in the center
You briefly touched on what I always figured was the reasoning behind this - a pink brick in the illustrations gives a clear signifier of spatial relationship and makes following the instructions easier.
The whole inside of the mandalorian, boba felt and the child set is random coloured pieces, because Lego wants to save money as they have already used a lot of grey and black pieces.
Plot twist: The pink bricks are just bricks missing their textures.
Hmm maybe?
I'd assumed it might be a marker of sorts, that gets hidden of course, to help differentiate the directions some for extra clarification.
Pretty easy to compare a picture with the model when there's a bright pink marker to help you compare a bit better after all, hah.
Starwars kits can get pretty complex, so it made sense, but
Cake is a far better answer, hehehe
same here, tho this is much more fun xD
I like your explanation. I always thought the same
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I have to imagine it's because pink is one of those colors that doesn't come up a whole lot but *is* particularly striking, so including colors like that is a limited way to get more bricks in those colors out there.
I always figured it'd just be as a reference anchor point when building, giving a single bright piece in a sea of grey or black to help distinguish things.
Number 3 of if you do another lego errors i'v got one. on Lloyd's golden ultra Dragon two of the vengestone warriors have armor pieces but in most of the promotional images it does not and in the real set it does not
I think the random brightly colored bricks are fun when building, but sometimes it irritates me because they can actually be seen from the outside. On the UCS ISD, the bright colored pieces can actually be seen at the seams of the bridge, and on the UCS AT-AT, there are some exposed tan pieces on the side plating that can be clearly seen when looking at the front or back, as well as colored pieces you can see when looking at the body from below. Especially since those are meant to be display sets, it kind of detracts from the model.
I like these parts in builds. Gives some extra detail to latch on to during building to make sure I’m putting parts in the right spot.
I assumed it would be for a similar reason as to why cartographers used to put fake towns on their maps, so they could see when someone would copy their map!
My favourite hidden colourful bricks in a smaller set is in the Speed Champions Koniegseg Jesko set, the exterior of the car is white with black accents but the interior has some hidden blue and yellow bricks in the shape of the Swedish flag
I always figured the colorful internal pieces were there to make building easier by making the steps visually distinct
iirc, the Statue of Liberty model set has the base inside filled with a lot of different colors to make it just a little bit easier
this is so crazy! I was just personally wondering why one of my bricks in the trunk of my bonsai set had one teal brick. thanks so much for this video I just started getting into Legos and now I'm a little bit of a fanatic and your channel has helped me learn more about my new favorite pass time
I'm glad that you have been enjoying my videos! :)
I really liked it when those fancy olive green bricks showed up all throughout my Lego Discovery Space Shuttle.
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Sometimes I really confuse that why Lego add so many different colors inside the base of huge sets. When I am doing my MOC, I try to use the same color as it is cheaper and easier for individual purchases. But as a manufacturer, it is better to add different colors to make the building progress enjoyable. Great video, thanks.
I feel like it is to help better visualize the build while keeping the outer colors consistent
I noticed a few hidden pink bricks inside the saucer of the TMNT “T-Rawket Sky Strike” set. Now I know why.
I always thought those off-colour bricks were just to piss people off - because that's the effect they had on me.
When I build my last Lego model - 10283 the Space Shuttle Discovery - I was almost at the point of throwing the whole thing against the next wall when I had to put in two bright azure plates for no reason.
I think the bright coloured elements are used mostly in areas where they are concealed from view. Although sometimes they really over do it like with 2022's Back to the Future DeLorean Time Machine... That set is a mess of colours.
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The one that delighted me is that the Lego Creator 3 in 1 set for the Cockatoo/ Bunny/ Seal all had a little pink heart inside of them
This video was neat. Thanks again for the awesome video. Keep up the great work!
Well dang, I thought they were just using up excess inventory. I have definitely noticed the inclusion of pink bricks in Brick Head sets.
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I noticed that the Lego Ideas Sonic set had a pink tile in the floating platform above the loop, and I had been confused about it. Glad to know that the reason is Cake lol
i thought the colorful bricks inside the newer sets were primarily to make building easier, as i noticed they were completely internal. but hearing this story and seeing some other reasons makes it even better.
I noticed alot of recent sets have also started using teal bricks like the car in the new iron man armoury
5:16 it would be easier to follow if they used an outline around the added bricks like in the Lego Vespa construction manual
One of my favorite sets was the At-At. It had either pink or green pieces in the feet.
I understand why they add colored bricks, but in some sets like the UCS Imperial Star Destroyer it really bugs me that you can easily see the colored bricks when you look at it from a specific angle. Made me position it a bit lower on the shelf so it would be less noticable.
If you crack open Firstbourne's torso, you can tell her internal structure is just a massive rainbow of colors. Brown, white, yellow, orange, blue, green...all kinds of stuff. Also, there's a hollow spot inside. I like to put a golden crystal piece in there. :)
My guesses would have been 1: pink contrasts against the other colors and 2: pink might be a less costly color to produce 3: pink lego plastic might have more structural integrity than other colors (the opposite of brown)
I always thought it would be a super cool idea to hide several obviously off color pieces to each set in a large series and if you collect them all you unlock a code to a secret instructions book online that uses all the hidden pieces for another small set from the same series
that’s a really fun idea!
The Bat-wing from the ´89 movie has not one but two pink bricks inside the wings, and they are heart shaped. I had to take a brake from building it, to catch my breath after laughing way to much.
in the speedchampions jesko there is a lot of blue and yellow bricks indicating the swerdish colors which is really cool
I think another reason they use simple colours (red, green, blue, etc...) with some internal structural pieces is possibly because they don't want to have to make a part in a colour that it doesn't already come in yet
Makes good set design if you can take it apart and you aren’t just left with a bunch of grey or black bricks. Gives you a color pallete to build with if you decide to repurpose the parts
In LEGO Saturn V set inside of the rocket there is a mix of every collor in the world. I am serious there is lots of bricks in collors like: pink, green, blue, red, brown. When the rocket collors are especialy black and white.
I was surprised when building 31133, the Creator white rabbit, seal, cockatoo, that each build had hidden away in the middle of it a little 1x1 heart tile.
I would've guessed the inclusion of oddly colored bricks in the middle of builds would've been because of overstock of a particular color of that element. Like they produced too many of them and they were taking up space so they had to find some way to get rid of them.
i like whenever these bricks are included even without the jokes because they are so much easier to see in the manuel
Gonna guess before watching the vid.
Its to help when building. If the build is one or few colors, having one stand out can be a good reference. Like on a graph that is larger, every 1 may not be marked, but every 10 is, so ypu can find 12 easier
I've noticed this before as well, also, last week I bought the new lego rivendell set and was baffled by the inclusion of some random complicated bricks in the interior of the tree that would never be seen.
My guess is this:
"Star wars sets are exceedingly grey, when thinking of boxes filled with lego the company wants you to think about a colorful collection of pieces that stimulates the imagination, rather than a dull, mature, grey mass, as such, whenever possible, they will attempt to add in colorful bricks so that collections of lego bricks maintain some color. This has the duel advantage of giving builders more options when building their own creations, so you're not just giving them a set, you're giving them a varied set of building parts for future home creations. The color pink is chosen because of it's relative rarity in other sets, this means that by giving builders pink bricks you are giving them a color they likely do not have many off, increasing their usefulness. In addition this helps Lego get rid of bricks that they might be producing more off than they actually need for sets".
I know Henrik. But before I got to know him I had bought the large scale X-wing from the late '90s. That was actually the fist Star Wars model he designed. And inside it had some colored bricks, that weren't going to be seen. Especially for the wing mechanism. I've asked him about it. "They are just easier to find in a pile of greys, and it won't be seen on the final model anyway" This was probably more than 15 years ago. And while the pink cake idea is more fun as a reference, it's just continuation of what they were already doing.
Talking of the Brickheadz' "brains," I still love that the Minecraft Creeper replaced that with a TNT block.
The closest I’ve personally come to this is the bright… I want to say red? 2x2 in the Ninjago ice dragon set, hidden in the dragon’s body. Strangely none of my Star Wars sets came with this, as far as I can recall
The only problem recently that I have with these exotic colors, is the inclusion of the bright blue plates in the wing of the Space Shuttle Discovery set. Thhese plates can be seen in real life, and are included in the official renders of the model in the instructions set.
Different-colored bricks do help with the orientation of the set while working. In fact, the most recent R2-D2 set used read and green bricks to build the infrastructure of the legs to designate which is right and which is left.
The whole substructure of the big DeLorean is a mess of random colored bricks, that can't be seen once finished. It really helps to follow instructions. But no pink. Appart from the hoverboard, that is stored in the trunk.
I always figured it was mostly to make it easier to see what you're doing in the instructions, yeah. Funny reason for specifically pink though.
A lot of Brickheadz sets, maybe even all of them, have a pink 2x2 specifically inside the head. I assumed most of the other random colored ones inside were just getting rid of extra bits of plastic they didn't need or just had a lot of but that the pink one was a joke to represent the character's brain.
I like to think the random red/pink bricks in the brickheadz are little brains and or organs, not sure about green. The strange colors for the inner workings of those larger legos are defiantly so they can be seen better in the intructions.
I just always figured they hid bright colored bricks inside things to.make them easier to see on the instructions for younger kids when it's in a sea of black, grey or brown bricks. I remember seeing a few random yellow inner bricks in some of my Pirates and Castle/Woodsman sets as a kid in the late 80s/early 90s.
The Landbounty (70677) from Lego Ninjago from 2019 has a classic 2-by-4 LEGO brick in pink in the back of the build where you can place the mini car. You can't see it, of course, it's covered with a black plate.
Alternate colored bricks also help jack up the cost of lego sets. Each color added increases the cost significantly. One pink brick? +5$
The Optimus Prime set has a lot of sky blue in him, and this may be a nod to the color of their sparks, which is sky blue. G1 energon is pink, and the energon cube the set comes with is the only pink in the set.
I've built several lego sets with random colors completely covered by other's. I always assumed it was just to help instructions by making an easy to see reference that won't show on the surface.
I've always thought it was weird to have hidden colorful parts. But I think there are two main reasons. First, it makes it easier to build. I've built Chinese sets that have only one or two colors and you can get a headache trying to look for parts on your table. Second, it's great for people who want to build MOCs to have more colors available. I'll watch the video to check if I was right 😄
Pausing for my guess - I figured it was a production thing. Like pink bricks are cheaper or LEGO has a surplus of pink bricks so it costs them slightly less to include a pink brick in a place you will never see it. We are talking about a big corporation here so most odd choices come down to money saving
The Netpune Carrier (LEGO Atlantis set 8075, from 2010) has a hidden Pearl Gold part (47457 Slope, Curved 2 x 2 x 2/3 with Two Studs and Curved Sides) inside that once built is neither visible nor accessible.
I think in that specific case, the designer decided to pick a cool part with an interesting colour, rather than two boring 2x2 plates.
I always figured it was to help orient yourself whole building, I remember when I was young I would struggle a lot with figuring our where the bricks were supposed to go exactly sometimes
These are really sweet reasons for the inclusion of Pink bricks ^^
I like the pink (or other bright colors) on some of the Lego Speed builds I have done. The bright colors for non visible structural parts makes assembly easier. Ask any one who has done the Aston Martin DB.
curiously I could imagine at least two reasons to do so for purely practical reasons. one would be to make instructions easier to read by adding some contrast. the other that minimum production numbers of colours could incentivise them to find places to "hide" surplus production of the less actually used colours (though I fancy lego has such absurd production numbers that this seems unlikely)
And here I thought the pink bricks were a hidden reference to R2-KT. If you aren't familiar with that Droid, I suggest looking it up. It's a very heartwarming, bittersweet background story.
Whether coincidence or not, that to me makes these pink pieces even cooler!
Minecraft Dungeons sets (Specifically the Redstone Monstrosity and the Jungle Abomination) also have pink bricks in them
Years ago I made a M Falcon set which has a number of pink bricks in the substructure. I figured it was to make following the instructions easier.
I thought it's used so you could more easily read the instructions and have a good "save point" in the builds to work off of, so you're less likely to go a stud left or right on all these single color sets.
For my brothers birthday,he got a cool Jurassic World Lego set.Obviously he was too lazy to do it on his own(or he was just too scared to do it)so I ended up doing it.While I was working on it I found not just a pink brick,but a whole lot of bright colorful pieces! It may just be a coincidence, but I think pink bricks appear in more Star Wars™ sets. Just my story but, yeah.Love your channel.😎
I always called those "landmark" bricks-- whether or not it's the intention (or part of it) it does make a useful point of reference for building the surrounding structures. As hinted at "it's between the black 2x2 and 2x3 full one down from the 1x2 shim" is a lot harder to locate than "one down from the center of the pink 2x3"
I’ve never even thought about a pink brick before, although it would be cool to have it as a brick that’s used often in sets
Like lots of others i mainly thought this was to have a visual reference point while building.
I also thought that it was a way to show young builders that its "ok" to hide random colors inside builds.
In addition to this i have heard some lego designers talk about purposefully using various colors to get more bricks of that color type out to builders.
And now this story.
It's apparent that there are several advantages to using bright or different colored bricks inside builds when possible.
There was also a few in the abdomen of Aragog in the Aragog's Forest Harry Potter set.
Tiago Catarino also admits that, in his time at LEGO, he and other designers added colors inside models in particular orders for representation. For example, he claims to add the Portuguese flag, represented by stacking colored plates, in several large sets.
Did you know, in Star Wars they have cake for every pink brick in star wars theme set
Sone would say it‘s a feature. Some other would say it‘s because Lego want to get rid of their cheaply produced bricks they still have in stock.
With all the wrong colors inside a set, especially with all the colors nobody wants, they make sure nobody uses the bricks for own creations or other models.
There is a german company „bluebrixx“, were there is a blue brick hidden in every set. That is a feature!